Quote Originally Posted by RiceisNice View Post
You couldn't allocate stats onto an equipment that already has those stats (You could not reforge Crit onto a piece that has Crit and skill speed; your choice would be acc or det), and the reforge was never on a 50:50 ratio, it was somewhere more like 70:30. If you wanted more crit, you'd be better off getting a piece that had crit as an inherent stat instead of getting a piece with Det, speed and reforging the speed.

What reforging did help with was to help meet accuracy and expertise caps.
True but my point was there was most of the time only 1 way to go to play your spec "right". And people would do everything in their power to get said stat making it an illusion of choice, rather then customization.